"Even the discovery in Israel a decade ago of a Neanderthal skeleton
with a large hyoid bone, which is in the throat and associated with
speech, had not settled the issue of Neanderthal speech."
John Noble Wilford, Early man had the ability to speak,
The Dallas Morning News, 4 May 1998.

This week's theme: words for miscellany.

X-Bonus

Dictionary: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a
language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a
most useful work. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), [The Devil's Dictionary, 1906]